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1. All shopping will take place on Facebook, combining key friend’s comments, friend’s purchase history, and the most trending facebook items in similar category.
2. Social shopping will reach a whole new height. As you are shopping, you will get a snapshot of all the things your friend bought, how much she paid, and where you can buy them for less.
If you are at a physical store about to pay at the register, a competing store will send you an offer to buy it for less at their near by location. But only if you leave the store right now and buy in the next 30 minutes.
3. Monthly shopping clubs, such as Shoe Dazzle and JewelMint, will collaborate with weather shopping apps - based on the upcoming weather forecast, you will receive a monthly delivery of “Made in China” wardrobe to wear, and able to ship them back for free {if unhappy}.
4. You will design your own shoes, bags, and jewels. Because let’s face it, it lets your creative juices flow,
makes you a designer, and allows you to introduce your very unique point of view into the universe.
5. You will be part of the design process for companies such as Coach, Gucci, and Miu Miu, via contests and other promotions. Or at least, you will be led to believe that you are part of the design process via craftly pulled strings of the very experienced marketing and social media agency.
6. Online Sample Sales industry will consolidate with Gilt and possibly Rue La La buying or taking out of business the smaller or less niched players. Once that happens the prices will be hardly a deal, although for a while they will continue to be promoted as such.
This will take Gilt from a sample sale site to a mega designer shopping site.
7. Socially responsible companies like TOMS will sprout like weeds. A few, like TOMS, will do so truly intending to manifest change. They will reach their goal. Most, will try to sell the same old product with a new social consciousness spin. They will get nowhere.
8. Shoes will get more comfortable, look more weird, and try to add more functionality to entice you to buy. The higher the platform the more shape-up benefit you will be getting. i.e. 4″ platform will burns 400 calories per day if walked in for four hours.
{You will burn more calories if you buy 2 shoes at once, even if you never wear them, and they simply sit in your closet, providing emotional support to the first pair}.
9. Brick and Mortar Stores will vanish. There will be less and less of them replaced by online shopping.
To make it feel like a real shopping experience you’ll be able to virtually shop with a friend, feel the fabric, use a virtual model of yourself to try things on. All while sharing virtual coffee and the latest gossip with your buddy. You will be able to purchase a virtual coffee upgrade and design your own coffee cup for $$$.
10. Rachel Zoe will meta-morph into a mega-TV personality, launch men, kids and home design line, have a women inspiration show, and run president while she is at it.
11. A few of the personal bloggers will launch a clothing and lifestyle line empire. This will herald a slew of other fashion bloggers to attempt to do the same, making one branding agency very very wealthy and giving us a significant fatigue of optimized images and a whole bunch of girls posing in unique ways in front of the camera.
13. Mega department stores, such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomies, will continue to run flash sales as their version of competition with sample sales websites. They will realize that it is just too much hassle and eventually scoop up left over sample sale online players and sell off left over merchandise through them.
14. Snooki and the other reality tv personas, who should have never been on tv if we had any standards left, will propel forward by getting her hair higher and promoting some severe-hold grade of hair spray, while launching a line of hair clips, lip-enhancers and tatoo removing wipes. They will feel important doing so.
15. A future day equivalent of Alexander Wang and Philip Lim will continue to think innovatively and introduce fashion forward designs that most of us will covet a few years after they launch.
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